En dehors des poèmes ou parties de poèmes traduit par les critiques énumérés plus haut, il n’y a guère de traduction en prose de quelque importance. TRADUCTIONS EN VERS MADAME AMABLE TASTU. _We are Seven._ SAINTE-BEUVE. _Joseph Delorme._ 1829. “Le plus long jour de l’année,” p. 88. Sonnet, “Personal Talk,” p. 123. “Sonnet sur le Sonnet,” p. 124. _Consolations._ 1830. Sonnet, “It is a beauteous evening,” p. 234. Sonnet, “Not Love, nor War,” p. 239. Sonnet, “Quand le poète en pleurs,” p. 236. _Pensées d’Août._ Trois sonnets imités de Wordsworth. I. “Reposez-vous et remerciez.” II. “La Cabane du Highlander.” III. “Le Château de Bothwell.” Sainte-Beuve cite en outre dans ses _Nouveaux Lundis_ des 21 et 22 Avril 1862, trois sonnets de Wordsworth traduits en vers, par l’Abbé Roussel. Ces traductions assez pauvres de poésie sont celles des sonnets suivants-- “Nuns fret not.…” “Dark and more dark.…” “These words were uttered as in pensive mood.” JEAN AICARD a traduit _We are Seven_ dans _La Chanson de l’Enfant_. PAUL BOURGET (_Études et Portraits_, vol. ii. _op. cit._) a traduit l’un des sonnets au Duddon. “What aspect bore the Man …?” III INFLUENCE Wordsworth’s influence on French literature was altogether very slight, nor did it make itself felt till about 1830; when, after a very limited period, it silently died away. Wordsworth was but little known by his contemporary Châteaubriand, who merely names him among other poets in his _Essai sur la Littérature anglaise_. Byron, Walter Scott, and in a lesser degree Thomas Moore, were the only writers of Great Britain whose works told on our literature at that time. Villemain, in his criticism of Byron, contemptuously dismisses all the so-called lake-poets to fix on his hero. He calls them: “Des métaphysiciens, raisonneurs sans invention, mélancoliques sans passion, qui, dans l’éternelle rêverie d’une vie étroite et peu agitée, n’avaient produit que des singularités sans puissance sur l’imagination des autres hommes. Tel était Woodsworth (_sic_) et le subtil mais non touchant Coléridge.” To Byron also, and to him alone (Ossian being excepted) among the poets of England, was Lamartine indebted. I am not sure that he names Wordsworth once; but still the striking analogy between the ideas and imaginative style of both cannot fail to be noticed by the reader. Without insisting on a parallel that might be drawn between many pages of _The Excursion_ and of _Jocelyn_, I will only point out two short pieces of Lamartine that bear strong resemblance to two poems of Wordsworth, so much so that they almost read like free imitations-- Lamartine Wordsworth’s “A Augusta,” _Recueillements | Poètiques_, xx. | _Nightingale and Stock-dove._ | “Le Fontaine du Foyard,” | _Nouvelles Confidences_. | _The Fountain._